Washington Post: Moving Africa toward health self-sufficiency Michael Gerson, opinion writer “…On global health in particular, the United States and Tanzania have performed wonders together over the last decade. … But amid this success, one statistic should cause concern. In 2002, Tanzania’s public sector accounted for about 25 percent of…

Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ “Global Food for Thought”: Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Food as Medicine — the Link between Nutrition and Health Roger Thurow, senior fellow for global agriculture and food at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, writes about the relationship between nutrition and health. The…

CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: 2014: A pivotal year for the HIV response in Malawi Beth A. Tippett Barr, chief of health services at CDC Malawi, discusses efforts by CDC, PEPFAR, the Malawi government, and other stakeholders to revise their 2014 annual plan with a focus on how data can inform…

Center for Strategic & International Studies’ “Smart Global Health”: Fighting HIV: Time to Focus, Says Debbi Birx Todd Summers, senior adviser at the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, discusses a recent blog post by Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator of the United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Deborah Birx on the…

Huffington Post: Accelerating Progress Toward an AIDS-free Generation in 2015 Deborah Birx, ambassador-at-large and coordinator of the U.S. government activities to combat HIV/AIDS “…As of September 2014, through the generosity of the American people, PEPFAR is supporting life-saving antiretroviral treatment for 7.7 million men, women, and children, but our work…

U.S. Department of State: U.S. Government Increases Focus on Gender-Sensitive Data: Leading Foreign Assistance Programs Avail Gender-Sensitive Data to Improve Policy and Development Decision-Making This media note describes the U.S. government’s participation in the recent Data2X event in New York City and its “commitment to making the empowerment of women…

Kaiser Family Foundation: Congress releases FY15 Omnibus According to the foundation’s Policy Tracker, “Excluding the emergency Ebola funding, total known funding for U.S. global health programs in the FY 2015 Omnibus is $9.1 billion, which is essentially flat compared to FY 2014, but is $353 million (4%) above the president’s…